What are the new words for 2016?

What are the new words for 2016?

The Best New Words of 2016

• bitplain. A way of preserving digital data in perpetuity.
• bompeln. Stoplights in the pavement, introduced in Germany for pedestrians who text while walking.
• cannavaping. Administering medical marijuana with an e-cigarette.
• dark sunshine.
• galactic warming.
• genetic superheroes.
• holoportation.
• HTTP 451.

What word was added to the dictionary in 2016?

Whatevs, simples, chillax, sumfin and Jafaican have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. They are among 203 new words which appear in the dictionary for the very first time.

What are the 10 new words?

10 new English words you should know in 2020

• Stan. Meaning: An extremely excessively enthusiastic and devoted fan (stalker-fan).
• Nomophobia. Meaning: Fear or worry at the idea of being without your phone or unable to use it.
• Peoplekind.
• Bottle episode.
• Carbon sink.
• Buzzy.
• Sober-curious.
• Permaculture.

What is the newest Word 2020?

5 new words you shouldn’t miss in 2020

1. Climate Emergency. Let’s begin our list with The Oxford Dictionary Word of The Year – climate emergency.
2. Permaculture. Permaculture is an old word that’s recently become more popular.
3. Freegan. A freegan is also a portmanteau that combines the words free and vegan.
4. Hothouse.
5. Hellacious.

What words are difficult to say?

The Most Difficult English Word To Pronounce

• Rural.
• Otorhinolaryngologist.
• Colonel.
• Penguin.
• Sixth.
• Isthmus.
• Anemone.
• Squirrel.

Is Conversate in the OED?

So a bunch of people noted in yesterday’s Ebonics thread that conversate wasn’t a word, because it wasn’t in the Oxford English Dictionary. Jesse Sheidlower, Editor At Large for the Oxford English Dictionary, was nice enough to bring some knowledge to this most important subject.

What is the oldest word?

Mother, bark and spit are some of the oldest known words, say researchers. Mother, bark and spit are just three of 23 words that researchers believe date back 15,000 years, making them the oldest known words. The words, highlighted in a new PNAS paper, all come from seven language families of Europe and Asia.

What are the 2021 new words?

Let’s explore 10 new words you’ll need for 2021:

• Adulting. Definition: The action of becoming or acting like an adult.
• Awe walk. Definition: Taking a walk outside and making an effort to look at the things around you.
• Contactless.
• Doomscrolling.
• PPE.
• Quarenteen.
• Thirsty.
• Truthiness.

What are 5 interesting words?

Let’s see which of these craziest words you already know and which ones are new to you:

• Bumfuzzle. This is a simple term that refers to being confused, perplexed, or flustered or to cause confusion.
• Cattywampus.
• Gardyloo.
• Taradiddle.
• Snickersnee.
• Widdershins.
• Collywobbles.
• Gubbins.

Is YEET a word?

Yeet, defined as an “indication of surprise or excitement,” was voted the American Dialect Society’s 2018 Slang/Informal Word of the Year.

Is Worstest a word?

‘Worstest’ is not actually a word in the English language. When describing something as the ‘most bad,’ the proper English term is simply ‘worst.